There were cell phone based payment systems before iPay, but now the point of sale terminals are going to finally happen. I think apple Pay is going to be a huge money maker as it becomes wide spread. It's timing is interesting. Credit card makers in the US are on the cusp of rolling out chip and pin and merchants will need to upgrade their point of sale terminals. . No one is excited about this mandated cost since analyses have shown didn't change the total amount of fraud (in the long run), it just shifted it from in-person fraud (where the chip works) to internet sales. However, apple pay, which does work, can just slip stream right along on the mass pos changeover without imposing an extra cost the merchants were not going have to pay anyhow (for chip and pin).

Second, this year at least, apple appears to have the best finger print reader. As motorola noted recently they left finger print ID off the new nexus because all the other vendors of the technology produce unsatisfactory finger print ID. It's either too many false positives or too many false negatives.

The challenge to apple pay of course is the market share of handsets. But as long as there are enough to make it worth making the NFC sensors compatible with Apple's bank authorization schema they will be in stores, giving apple a growing drip feed of cash.

You're better off with multipar rather than chuchusoft's par2 binaries.

This will help ali baba. E-bay had the same problem. I've encountered dozens of fake scams on ali baba. Mostly for watches.

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Then you're as stupid as the cops. Its the cops' job to put themselves into "dangerous" situations in order to protect the public. Cops are scared of "stalkers"? As if stalkers wouldn't exist without a phone app??? Should cops be scared of breathing city air? Should we be providing them breathing masks along with their bulletproof vests and 17 round firearms?

Those two cops that were murdered in NYC were not killed because of an app. They were killed because a deranged shitbag got the jump on them. If cops feel justified killing misdemeanor lifestyle criminals with dangerous, prohibited chokeholds, then they should not feel like the people who pay their salaries support them.

Use your brain. The cops don't want waze because it makes it harder for them to meet their arrest quotas. That is the only effect a speedtrap app can have

Only a moron would depend on a voluntary participation app to keep him from getting arrested in a bank robbery. Don't go into crime, you'd get arrested with the other dumbasses.

You become what you hate.

4.4 won't run on devices with less than 512M so even if the carriers wanted to they can't upgrade.

What???? it's totally unreasonable for a web connected but embedded OS.

I think they need to have a Capcha as well so the delivery person can prove he's a human not an autonomous drone. Make him do a mathc problem to compute the number.

All kids under 10 love to have a playing card clipped into their bicycle spokes. It just sounds so bad ass.

This is the plot gimmick used in the horrible movie "The Dilemma" starring Vince Vaughn and his fake sound makers to make Dodge electric car engines sound "less gay".

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Gravity is a hoax. The earth is a large flat disk accelerating through space on the back of a rocket propelled tortoise and the sun is small light source only 100 miles above the plane of the disk. It's really the B-ark space ship carrying away the descendants of the true earth's telephone sanitizers and hairdressers. Don't fall for the lies of "big globe" and their well paid "scientists".

I take it you are not yet persuaded by the science against smoking cigarettes?

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Any sale of goods, provision of service, or transaction has implied requirements by the vendor to not "damage" the recipient or bystanders. When such vendor is remiss in delivering services as such, OR try to cover up malfeasance, that is a civil harm. When it physically damages individuals, or otherwise legally defined, it is a crime. In most cases, damages are resolved in the civil courts.

Microsoft's products are so pervasive in our society, their ability to be penetrated by hackers threatens bank accounts, personnel records, medical records, and in rare cases, infrastructure. Where Microsoft is "negligent", they can be sued. Its only a matter of time.

And unknown flaw lurking for years does not make Microsoft liable for negligence. A KNOWN flaw, which Microsoft does not move on, will eventually be grounds for civil damages. If it ends up killing people, its possible for it go criminal trial.

Season 2 AoS has been lights out, but Season 1 was so horrifically bad, I still hold a grudge against the showrunners for wasting my time for so many weeks. And I'll probably have to waste another week devising a season one guide, where I tell you what episodes are good, and important to following the season, and write summaries for the episodes to skip.

I don't hold a grudge against actor/supermodels that can do a salmon ladder. Sometimes, the writers can stick in awesome snark, but usually not often enough. One of my problems with Arrow is that its basically cloning/coopting the Batman mythos.

There are a (counting) gross of British actors that I think are measurably better that Pertwee, (most of them playing Americans on TV) but I do have a soft spot for him, in his limited roles, and that he's Jon Pertwee's (Doctor Who #3) kid.

My problem with Gotham is that I think the ideal Batman TV series needs to be TV-MA on a subscription cable network, and that DC doesn't have the guts to put out a truly artistic rendition, so they will destroy it with half-measures like Gotham. Its much like how corporations have destroyed Christmas as an enjoyable holiday. And Robin Lord Taylor (Penguin) is the only actor truly keeping the show afloat. It would be a mistake to introduce the Joker in the 1st or even 2nd season, but that show needs more than RLT to be worth watching. They can't carry that show with one-shot comic-like villains each week.